Bob CollinsWhen former NFL player Steve Gleason’s son, Rivers, was born, he began a series of personal video journals ‘as a way of sharing my life, who I am, and love for him,’ he writes. Read more →
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Arts & Culture
It’s Flag Day, the annual NewsCut tradition of which requires us to cite — and maybe mock a bit — the way people show their love for the American flag, often by abusing it. Read more →
Some people might see this video only as a phone ad. I prefer to see it as an ad for one of the greatest communities in Minnesota: Montevideo.
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Mikhael Teryohin, an engineer at a software company in Fargo, is worried about people across the border and the threat they represent to the hard-working people in his area. They could, for example, steal their jobs. Read more →
There will be a ‘Night of the Gun’ mini-series, Sony pictures announced today. Read more →
Good art should challenge us. It should occasionally upset us.
Mission accomplished in a Houston-area park, thanks to a statue of people taking a selfie. Read more →
She’ll host a public celebration at the lift station named in her honor on June 15.
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In a country full of talented radio broadcasters, there were few who were better at it than Ron Rosenbaum, 68, who died on Sunday morning. Rosenbaum, who as an attorney represented many of the Twin Cities media elite (including Tom Barnard), parlayed his legal acumen into successful radio stints at WCCO, KSTP, KFAN and, finally, Read more →
Generally speaking, Minnesota architecture can be a boring series of right angles. Folks seem to like it. The style feels like a comfortable pair of slippers.
So you might want to think about the design of the new Minnesota United stadium for awhile and not react right away. Read more →
The Greatest Generation might be the last generation of great letter writers, missives home that read like great literature. We had a greater command of the English language back then. A formality,too. We may never approach such writing again. Read more →
It’s a bit of a shame that NPR often doesn’t air media commentary by its gifted media correspondent, David Folkenflik, because his takedown of Katie Couric for her documentary on guns today deserves a wider audience. Read more →
In a boost to the stereotype that Twitter is only good for posting pictures of what you’ve had for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, a national reporter for the Los Angeles Times says he’s absorbed social media scorn for having an unsliced banana with his meal in Minneapolis. Read more →
Devil’s Kettle Falls, about 20 minutes east of Grand Marais, draws visitors far and wide for its unique mystery: half the river disappears into a hole (kettle) and no one knows where all that water goes. Read more →
If you enjoyed my interview last week with Rob Schmitz, the Marketplace China correspondent, MPR producer veteran, and Elk River native, here’s a little more for your plate. Read more →
Karinya, 15, had tickets to last Thursday’s Florence and the Machine concert in Austin, TX. But she was too sick to go. She has cancer and things have been pretty tough.
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